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Published: July 18, 2026 20:30
Don't miss our night of readings with PRS. Join us on July 26 in the PRS Library and celebrate the hidden gems and oddities that make L.A. endlessly fascinating. …
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Published: July 18, 2026 16:59
"For patients who can’t be cured with drugs, the future of TB treatment increasingly looks like its past." Christoph Grundner on his grandfather's time treating TB in Nazi Germany:…
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Published: July 18, 2026 16:31
"I’d love to see the conversation broaden." From the LARB archives: Emily Wilson about her work translating the “Odyssey” and the state of the classics: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emily-wilson-on-porous-boundaries-and-the-world-of-homer/
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Published: July 18, 2026 13:31
“But here I was, on an unfinished exit ramp and a 50-foot drop into a man-made canyon of nothing.” Read Susan Daitch's "Advice from a Stunt Double," our latest digital release from the new issue:…
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Published: July 17, 2026 21:01
“They record, at a granular, material level, how communities drew together to persist and organize through loss." Laura Frost on how preserved sex invitations tell the story of women and LGBTQ+ people:…
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Published: July 17, 2026 18:59
"'Living, Together' arrives at a moment when how we live together feels less like a lifestyle preference than a social necessity." Michelle Gurule on Samantha Paige Rosen's new anthology:…
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Published: July 17, 2026 17:10
"In this episode, the crime is not only murder, it is also language—language that refuses to behave, language that has been assigned criminal intent." Huda Fakhreddine on campus activism in "Law and Order":…
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Published: July 17, 2026 13:29
"Open tuberculosis became a political as much as a medical liability." Christoph Grundner reflects on his grandfather's time as a thoracic surgeon treating TB patients in Nazi Germany:…
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Published: July 16, 2026 19:02
"As Story put it: ‘It reveals who’s the real deal.’ In an industry built on uncertainty, that may be the more durable change." On Hollywood, Gaza, and the invisible blacklist:…
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Published: July 16, 2026 17:02
"Why would he so disparage a book, I wondered, that so deserves to be read?" Mike Fortun responds to Jonathan Basile's review of Kathryn Paige Harden’s "Original Sin":…
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Published: July 16, 2026 15:29
"My field of scholarship had become a legal and criminal minefield." Arabic Literature professor Huda Fakhreddine on seeing herself unfortunately reflected in "Law and Order":…
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Published: July 16, 2026 13:29
"The nuclear family is one model among many, not the inevitable destination of adulthood." Michelle Gurule on Samantha Paige Rosen's new anthology "Living, Together":…
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Published: July 15, 2026 20:59
"These days, I am much more interested in writing that locates appreciation and hope as part of its investigation." Elizabeth Metzger talks to Maya C. Popa about her new collection "If You Love That Lady":…
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Published: July 15, 2026 19:02
"I still want a Maybelline ad, but they won’t give it to me." John Waters talks turning 80 ("going on 81"), whether he'd welcome more remakes of his films, and what he still hopes to do:…
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Published: July 15, 2026 16:59
"‘Ada’ is one long burst of energy. It depends upon its momentum—which is to say, for a hesitant reader, it might not land." Drew Basile on Mark Haber's new book, "Ada": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tantrum-literature-drew-basile-ada-mark-haber
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Published: July 15, 2026 15:03
"'The Illuminated Man' seeks to trace out the roots of Ballard’s visionary fiction in his life, without reducing the former to the latter." Steven Shaviro on "The Illuminated Man":…
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Published: July 15, 2026 13:29
"Basile’s essentializing of 'what' Harden is strikes me as wrong in more ways than one." Mike Fortun responds to Jonathan Basile's review of Kathryn Paige Harden’s "Original Sin":…
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Published: July 14, 2026 20:20
"The film’s narrative leans into the public’s fascination with femicide and the authorities’ willingness to cut corners when it comes to investigating the murder of women." Radha Vatsal on “Unidentified”:…
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Published: July 14, 2026 19:10
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Published: July 14, 2026 18:59
“The tantrum novel is propelled by little more than its own voice. And when the tantrum runs out of steam, invariably the novel ends.” Drew Basile reviews Mark Haber's new book, "Ada":…
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Published: July 14, 2026 16:59
"Alito’s peculiar combination of triumph and rage is a fascinating psychological phenomenon, well worth exploring. But this book won’t help with that." Andrew Koppelman on "Alito":…
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Published: July 14, 2026 13:29
"Reading letters feels—indeed is—a form of eavesdropping (a sensibility at the heart of lyric poetry)." Elizabeth Metzger interviews Maya C. Popa about "If You Love That Lady": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/maya-popa-poetry-if-you-love-that-lady/
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Published: July 13, 2026 19:59
"The model is the scripteur actualized." Alex McPhee-Browne explores the link between semiotics and LLMs: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/signifiers-differance-saussure-barthes-derrida-llm-ai-slop/
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Published: July 13, 2026 15:59
There are still tickets available for our event with PRS! Join us on July 26 for a night of readings celebrating the hidden gems and oddities that make L.A. endlessly fascinating. …
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Published: July 13, 2026 15:29
"To her enormous discredit, she crosses the line into unethical journalism by defaming the innocent." Andrew Koppelman on Mollie Hemmingway's uncritical biography of Justice Samuel Alito:…
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Published: July 13, 2026 13:29
"'Unidentified' combines suspense with social commentary, offering a glimpse into a world rarely portrayed on the screen." Radha Vatsal reviews Haifaa Al Mansour’s new film, “Unidentified”:…
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Published: July 12, 2026 19:15
“Television flow reorganized narrative time. Social media has radicalized it.” From our Traffic issue, Max L. Feldman on what the internet took from television: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/max-l-feldman-internet-television-flow-traffic/
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Published: July 12, 2026 17:34
"The only thing I can offer with confidence is my own uncertainty. It may be the most human trait we have left." Exploring literary credibility in the age of AI:…
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Published: July 12, 2026 15:59
"I think that you can tell that we had joy making these movies even at their ugliest." Conor Williams interviews John Waters about his films’ induction into the Criterion Collection:…
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Published: July 12, 2026 13:29
"The model can generate the shadow of langue without its substance, the statistical trace of a social contract it was never party to." Alex McPhee-Browne explores the history of semiotics and LLMs:…
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Published: July 11, 2026 18:01
From the LARB Archives: “Above all else, Toni Morrison’s rejection letters focus on craft—on the experience of reading a work under review.”…
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Published: July 11, 2026 16:59
"Grossman managed to produce first-rate journalism that is also of lasting quality as artful prose." Eric Vanderwall reviews Vasily Grossman's "From the Front Line":…
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Published: July 11, 2026 16:02
Today's the day! Come help us prepare for our move by nabbing some gems from our archive. Join us at the Granada Buildings from 11-6 today to score some discounted magazines, LARB freebies, and more. Don't miss it!…
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Published: July 11, 2026 15:30
"This is our culture’s new emotional repertoire, pre-primed for maximum watchability—as the basis for prolonged immersion." Max L. Feldman on what the internet learned from TV:…
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Published: July 11, 2026 13:29
“You have to use humor, it is the only way to fight.” John Waters talks to Conor Williams about his films entering the Criterion Collection: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/john-waters-criterion-collection-hairspray-desperate-living-baltimore/
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Published: July 10, 2026 21:01
"I see us like two lines on a grid intersecting. Dermot was on his way deeper into alcoholism and I was about to max out, but for a moment in time, we worked." Molly McCloskey reflects on Dermot Healy:…
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Published: July 10, 2026 18:59
On this week's #LARBRadioHour, ’Pemi Aguda joins to talk about her debut novel "One Leg on Earth." Listen now on our website or wherever you get your podcasts: https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/pemi-aguda-one-leg-earth-interview-podcast/
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Published: July 10, 2026 18:30
Alexis Almeida talks about her new book, "Caetano": "I think narratives can also be places, because they can become familiar and played out, defamiliarized." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/caetano-alexis-almeida-poetry-repetition-memory-absence/
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Published: July 10, 2026 17:40
"'The Illuminated Man' seeks to trace out the roots of Ballard’s visionary fiction in his life, without reducing the former to the latter." Steven Shaviro on "The Illuminated Man":…
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Published: July 10, 2026 13:29
"It makes for a highly rewarding and informative read, albeit one that can exact a heavy emotional toll, and is thus best read with moral seriousness." Eric Vanderwall on "From the Front Line":…
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Published: July 9, 2026 21:02
"Ward moves easily from the personal to the political. Or, one might argue: the personal for her is political and vice versa." J.W. Bonner reviews Jesmyn Ward's "On Witness and Respair":…
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Published: July 9, 2026 19:21
"The novel depicts Apachería as a landscape in transition from one state to another, like the goo a caterpillar dissolves into before emerging from its chrysalis." Nick Roberts on "Now I Surrender":…
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Published: July 9, 2026 18:02
"This beleaguered aspect of surrealist refusal and demand becomes more pronounced in the glaucous light of today's déjà vu of neo-fascisms." Abigail Susik on André Breton, surrealism, and necropolitics:…
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Published: July 9, 2026 15:29
"'The Illuminated Man' seeks to trace out the roots of Ballard’s visionary fiction in his life, without reducing the former to the latter." Steven Shaviro on "The Illuminated Man":…
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Published: July 9, 2026 13:29
"I wanted to also think about love and its more incomprehensible qualities." Monica de la Torre interviews Alexis Almeida about her new book, "Caetano": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/caetano-alexis-almeida-poetry-repetition-memory-absence/
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Published: July 8, 2026 21:02
"You’re not diving headfirst into something, you’re diving in feet first. And that’s a bit of a metaphor for publishing in general." Andy Brown on how Conundrum press got its logo:…
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Published: July 8, 2026 20:30
We're moving! Just down the hall. But to prepare and celebrate, we’re running an in-person archive sale! Come join us at the Granada Buildings this weekend to score some discounted magazines, LARB freebies, and more. Learn more:…
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Published: July 8, 2026 19:59
"When woven together the novella evokes a place once imagined as a safe haven, now dissolving into an increasingly broken family and city." Teresa Xie reviews Dorothy Tse's "City Like Water":
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Published: July 8, 2026 15:59
“I had a lot of therapy at a really young age, and I learned a certain way of having conversations about one’s interior life.” Sam Axelrod interviews Rachel Aviv about her new book, "You Won’t Get Free of It":…
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Published: July 8, 2026 13:29
"It's a sign of these very different times that pessimism came so readily to mind as I considered a series of new translations of André Breton." Abigail Susik on Breton, surrealism, and necropolitics:…